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# Platform Engineering Architect

- **Company:** Kyndryl
- **Location:** Hoofddorp, Netherlands
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** LangGraph Framework, JavaScript (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Application Lifecycle Management, Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, Cloud Database, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Electronic Design Automation, Information Technology Operations, Python (Programming Language), Operational Data Store, OpenShift, Ansible, Azure Machine Learning, TypeScript, VMware VSphere, AI Infrastructure, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Delivery Pipeline, HybridCloud, Agentic-AI, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Terraform, Software Version Control, Docker, Servicenow, Vmware
- **Published:** October 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=f3aa29231ac8beca

## About the Role

* Platform Engineering / IDP: Platform-as-a-Product, Golden Paths, Backstage, Developer Portals
 * Kubernetes: AKS, VKS, Docker, OpenShift
 * Cloud: Azure and Hybrid Cloud environments
 * Automation: Ansible, Terraform, Chef
 * VMware: vSphere, vRA, vRO, Aria
 * AI Infrastructure: Multimodal AI, Agentic AI
 * DevOps: CI/CD, GitOps, immutable deployments, multi-environment promotion
 * Programming: Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Shell
 * AI Frameworks: LangChain, LangGraph
 * Infrastructure: VMware and enterprise infrastructure platforms

Experience & Qualification

 * 10+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, cloud automation, platform engineering or enterprise architecture.
 * Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale platforms and automation frameworks .
 * Strong experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures .
 * Experience building or operating an Internal Developer Platform / Developer Portal .
 * Experience with enterprise automation and infrastructure-as-code. Experience in AI infrastructure, GPU platforms or AI/ML platform engineering is highly desirable.
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## Description

The role will be responsible for transforming complex infrastructure capabilities into standardized, reusable, governed and self-service platforms . The ideal candidate will have strong experience in platform architecture, Kubernetes, cloud automation, CI/CD, developer platforms and emerging AI infrastructure.

The position requires a combination of hands-on technical architecture, platform product thinking, engineering leadership, automation expertise and stakeholder management .

Preferred Skills

Automation & Infrastructure Engineering

 * Develop reusable automation capabilities for infrastructure provisioning and Day-2 operations.
 * Design automation frameworks using Ansible, Terraform, VMware vRA/vRO/Aria, Chef, AWS and ServiceNow .
 * Establish composable automation patterns that can be reused across multiple technology platforms and enterprise environments.
 * Drive reduction of bespoke automation through standardized and governed engineering patterns.

CI/CD & Platform Lifecycle

 * Design enterprise CI/CD and application lifecycle architectures.
 * Establish build-once/promote-everywhere, ephemeral environment and automated rollback capabilities.
 * Integrate source control, build, deployment and infrastructure automation into standardized delivery pipelines.
 * Promote engineering practices that improve deployment consistency, repeatability and operational governance.

Agentic Automation

 * Design and evolve AI-powered automation solutions for infrastructure and IT operations.
 * Apply RAG, historical operational data, SOPs, tool integration and contextual decision-making to automation use cases.
 * Explore autonomous incident remediation and AI-assisted operational workflows.

Architecture Governance

 * Establish architecture standards, reusable reference architectures and engineering patterns.
 * Ensure platform solutions meet enterprise security, compliance, scalability and operational requirements. Work closely with engineering, application, cloud, security and operations teams to drive platform adoption.
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